Maybe this belongs under 'Lies They Feed Us: "Wild,Crab

Anyone want to guess where this is brewed?

photo taken at Lillian's Caribbean Grill
Grand Galleria, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

That's hilarious. Made in Rhode Island and shipped to the Virgin Islands.

Close - according to the label's small print, it's from Shipyard Brewing, Portland ME (but now availiable in RI!)

It's like Kingfisher Beer. Sold as imported Indian beer, but brewed in Saratoga Spings, NY.

Now that you mention it, it reminds me of Foster's. "It's Canadian for beer, mate." (To be fair, I do think the Canadian version uses Ringwood hops.)

Guinness, too.

Royal Beer of Tonga was originally produced by Pripp's in Sweden. Can't get much farther away than that. It is now all made in Tonga at a brewery owned by Pripp's and the crown Prince (actually, I think he will be crowned king next year).
http://www.royalbeer.to/

nr706 wrote:Now that you mention it, it reminds me of Foster's. "It's Canadian for beer, mate." (To be fair, I do think the Canadian version uses Ringwood hops.)

Australian, australian!

The canadians give us Molson Canadian. Not to be confused with molson export.

gleam wrote:

nr706 wrote:Now that you mention it, it reminds me of Foster's. "It's Canadian for beer, mate." (To be fair, I do think the Canadian version uses Ringwood hops.)

Australian, australian!

The canadians give us Molson Canadian. Not to be confused with molson export.

The point is: Foster's is supposed to be (quintessentially) Australian but what's sold here is actually brewed in Canada.

cf:
http://www.epinions.com/content_32835538564

Antonius

Oh, what a shame for Canuckistan. I'd be a little ashamed to be working in that brewery.

BrendanR wrote:Guinness, too.

Harp is brewed in canada as well. The guinness draught (on tap) still comes from Ireland and Guinness stout is coming from Canada.

I seem to recall a time wherein I was talking with Michael, owner of Hopleaf, and he informed me that all the Guinness on draft in this country is actually brewed in Jamaica.
Maybe I was drunk though, and am mis-remembering.

When I spent some time on St. Kitts, I noticed something there which was replicated on a number of other Caribbean islands. Out north of town there's small brewery which puts out Caribe and Guinness. I don't know what the stage of feedstock is--malt, or malt extract, or even extract of wort from some central industrial complex--but what comes out is locally brewed Caribe and Guinness. Same thing was clear on San Martaan, and, I suspect lots of other places.

The point to this is that it doesn't matter how closely you keep the local product reined in, it's going to have minor local touches which aren't there in the international type. There quite simply is no way to keep local yeasts and other microflora from colonizing a place of fermentation.

For example, the absolutely very best Guinness I've ever had in my life was in KL. Much better than either the London or Dublin product. And I've heard that there are genuine Guinness experts who hold the same. But it's inevietably a local product.

So: Foster's in Canadia? Best believe it'll be *Canadian" Foster's and not the same as the Oz product. Even if the formulary is identical, the microenvironment, which controls the nuances, isn't identical.

Geo

"Even if the formulary is identical, the microenvironment, which controls the nuances, isn't identical."

Agreed. In addition, however, the formulary for Guinness draught is far from identical, for, as I have read, there are 19 different recipes for it throughout the world, each tailored to a particular region's tastes, as they see it (more sweetness, tweaked malt, hyped bitter notes).

Of course, I'm of the opinion that local beer is always better, and reflective of the region's tastes in small but descriminate ways.

Geary's India Pale Ale in Portland, ME? A mite more laid-back than the Burning River IPA from Great Lakes in Cleveland. 'Tis a bitter brew they like in my native northeast Rustbelt Ohio.

The two guys who started VI Pale Ale have opened up The Brew Pub in the Mongoose Junction mall in Cruz Bay, St. John, USVI. Supposedly they also have it on tap and are in the process of developing another brew.

Geetings from Panama City. Having a Panamania brewed Heineken as I write this and I gotta say it's far superior to the product they send to the states. Same goes for the Heineken brewed by D&G on Jamaica.